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Local Culture, Popular Culture, and Cultural Landscapes (Key Question 2:…

- - - - The practice of only accepting members born to 2 Parsi parents is threatening their population. Having one parent Parsi and one not is unacceptable.
- - - - On the Backroad to Heaven by Donald Kraybill and Carl Bowman explain that the lynchpin of each colony is the Hutterite religion.
      - The Hutterite (Canada) have a 30 minute service every night that the minister (highest ranked) leads. They're willing to adapt their technology to help them, and use dating sites to help them find suitable marriage partners in other states and countries of their culture.
        
        If the couple decides to marry, the woman has to move to the man's colony of origin. She doesn't have a strong political position, and is expected to have many kids (5-6), however the whole colony is responsible for raising them.
      - Hutterite colonies specialize in diversified agriculture, raising feed and livestock on around 10,000 acres. The most economically successful create machines to sell to the farmers to help with their jobs.
      - Mennonites came from the East Coast to the U.S. and even Bolivia to create space for themselves. This way they could live by their religion and not be pressured by popular culture.
      - In the 1800's, Plains Indians tribes in North America followed the bison through seasons and used all of the parts of the bison for different things.
        
        Today, when a local culture decides to reengage a traditional economic activity, they have to go through varying opinions among its tribe members, limitations imposed by the gov., and perceptions of other cultures.
  - - - Although the Makah did get their whale hunts back, it has been varied. They are not allowed to use the same weapons, and the whole time they were hunting there was ppl protesting & watching them.
        
        The Ninth Circuit Court decided that they must submit a waver, which they did, and it's still under inspection as of 2011
  - - - If a characteristic of a culture is copied, one version will be considered authentic. The authentic one appeals to tourists bc they experience the complexity of the place directly rather than a stereotype. (ex. Branson Missouri)
- - - - Bc technologies link some places more closely than others, ideas diffuse through interconnected places rapidly rather than diffusing at constant rates across similar distances.
  - - - Reterritorialization - a process where ppl start to produce an aspect of popular culture themselves, doing so in the context of their local culture and place, and making it their own
      - Hip hop originated from New York and LA, hip hop artists alter their sound for their audience members. Artists address the major concerns of their local cultures in their lyrics.
  - - - Alternative sports athletes don't make very much money actually competing, but they make a lot through sponsorships.
      - Marketers sell lifestyles and desires as well as products (ex. skincare, masculinity, beer, trucks, fast food, fashion)
      - As soon as an extreme sport becomes popular and mainstream, a new one will be created and attract new followers. Therefore extreme sports will always rival the big 3 sports. Extreme sports want to stay out of popular culture will always spur the creation of new extreme sports.
  - - - Hallyu - waves of South Korean popular culture, has been moving through Asia
        
        Ppl don't want to replace their local culture. They don't want popular culture to replace their local culture, no matter age, size, race, religion, poor, rich, ect.
        
        Through policies and funding, the French gov. has helped maintain its cultural industries.